Big Data Architect

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• Melbourne CBD
• Market-leading company growing Big Data capabilities
• Competitive remuneration with excellent progression

Big Data Architect - Melbourne CBD - Permanent. 

My client are a market-leading IT Services company with clients in Banking, Retail, Telco, Energy amongst others.  They are growing their Big Data capabilities and are keen to recruit additional Big Data Architects to their awesome team. Fantastic opportunity to work on some of the most complex Big Data projects (many of which are greenfield,) acquire new skills and be part of a growing team where professional development and progression is supported and actively encouraged.  

Main activities:

• Informs strategy and architecture through cutting edge research and industry best practice knowledge.
• Influences senior stakeholders through deep technical expertise, customer/domain knowledge and vision and objective, collaborates with senior stakeholders to secure funding for new initiatives.
• Leads the translation of visualisation designs into physical solutions using tools such as tableau, HTML, Java and DSJ3.
• Demonstrates innovation thought concrete application of technical skills to complex business problems (e.g.) new data structures/storage to support advanced machine learning algorithms).
• Supervising the activities of a team of assigned data engineers, to provide effective analysis, design, programming and testing skills in the production of large data systems, or performing specialist roles in data research and technology.
• Supporting the internal quality and control requirements defined by company policy, possibly acting as a cost account manager.
• Lead complex initiatives and shape the teams agenda
• Builds/develops team capability and talent

  
Key skills:

• Good written and oral communications, identifying problems and process management skills with the ability to work within or lead a team.
• Data modelling and data analysis
• SQL on Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) relational databases
• Experience working in DevOps and Agile environments, as well as continuous integration
• Strong software engineering and coding skills, ideally in a data intensive environment
• Experience in distributed / high performance computing systems, such as grid computing or MPP systems
• Ability to strongly advocate technical positions while still appreciating alternative proposals
• 3+ years Hortonworks or Cloudera experience
• Hadoop, Map reduce, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Impala, Oozie, Cassandra, HBase. Spark-streaming as per the customer requirements

Nice to haves:

• Securing Hadoop cluster.
• Ranger & Knox knowledge.
• Familiar with Hortonworks/Cloudera distributions administration.
• Excellent knowledge of Big Data components.
• Hands-on experience with Kerberos and Hadoop production platform security.
• Hortonworks/Cloudera/MapR administration certifications is plus.
• The ability to lead Big Data projects from a technical perspective.
• The ability to architect a high availability, high throughput hadoop cluster from customer requirements.
• Participate in pre-sales activities including creating big data deliverables to proposals and presenting to potential customers.

How to Apply:

If you are well suited to the opportunity, we'd love to hear from you. 
You can apply by clicking on the link on the advert. Please send your resume by clicking on "apply" button below or for further information/ quicker consideration contact Adam directly on [email protected]. / 0438877295